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Railway maps & plans

This rich array of maps and plans reveals the inexorable rise of railways in the 19th century and how they became an established part of the British landscape. See how new lines carved their paths through the British countryside, transforming the environment and connecting towns and cities across the country like never before.

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LNER map

1923-1948

Great Western Railway map

circa 1900-circa 1948

Map, Railway Clearing House

1897

Bartholomew's Railway Map of the British Isles

1939

Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland

1822

Plan, elevation and brief specification for the Sankey viaduct

Map, Railway Clearing House

1913

Map of Railway Clearing House in Scotland

1916

Map, Railway Clearing House

1921

Brydone's Railway Directory

1858-1862

Map of the Lancashire & Yorkshire North Eastern Railway shewing its connection with the exisiting and projected lines of the district

1846

A Plan and Section of an intended Railway or Tram-Road from Liverpool to Manchester

1824-1830

Map, Railway Clearing House

1874

Royal Route to the North of Scotland via Aberdeen

map of London & South Western Railway

Stanford's Map of Metropolitan Railways, Bridges, Embankments &c. ....

1863

Map of the East Indian Railway

1846

A plan and section of the railway from Liverpool to Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster

1829

Scarborough's map of the British Isles

1911-1914

'Map of the London and Birmingham Railway and adjacent country', c 1840

1835-1845

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

1845

A new map of Great Britain; particularly shewing the Inland Navigation

1844

Smith's Map of England & Wales, Containing the whole of the Turnpike Roads, Railways & Canals

1845

A travelling county atlas: with all the railroads accurately laid down and coloured

1847

Bradshaw's Map of the Railways in Great Britain shewing also the line of Navigation from the principal Sea Ports ....

1843

Cruchley's Railway Map of England & Wales / G.F. Cruchley

1840

Map of the Inland Navigation

1830

Smith's Railway Map, 1836

1836

Carriage Plan of Royal train for Queen Victoria's funeral

1901

Map, Railway Clearing House

1906

Liverpool and Manchester Railway Plan 1824

1824-11-20

Southern Railway general system

River Tyne

Midland & Great Northern Joint Lines

1914

Relief map, Great Western Railway. In glass case with relief of South-West England including Wales and Cornwall.

Great Western Railway relief map in glass case

Map, National Railway of Zimbabwe, system map.

National Railway of Zimbabwe map

Plan, of the intended branch canal from the main canal near Killerby to the Collieries made by George Dixon of Cockfield, also showing plan of waggon way from near Raby Castle towards Staindrop, May 1770, scale 4 furlongs: 1 inch, paper backed on linen.

1770 plan of intended canal near Killerby

1770

Three bound and rolled sets of maps showing North Eastern Railway districts: fire brigade divisions, chain inspector districts, locomotive superintendents districts; carriage and wagon departments; inclines, power & pumping stations; engine shed districts; tool van districts; district engineer's districts; collieries that supply loco coal; list of engine turntables; fire brigade return districts; sand driers.

NER District Maps 1911

1911

4 plans of Diggle Railway Station and Standedge tunnel, London and North Western Railway 1869, showing approaches to the tunnel from both approaches.

Diggle Railway Station and Standedge Tunnel Drawings

1868-1869

Three maps of the North Eastern Railway; North Eastern Railway plan of Northumberland Coalfield, 1910. Plan of North Eastern Railway and Connections 1907 (colour coded to show principal natural products), North Eastern Railway map shewing the divisions of the district superintendents (includes list of names)

Three NER maps

1907-1910

Map of York 1851 showing station, York and North Midland Railway and York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway lines and associated sidings and workshops, coal depots, staithes, and surrounding streets.

Map of York 1851

1851

Six inch ordnance survey map showing a proposed railway linking the Cromford and High Peak Railway at Longcliffe with the Great Northern Railway at Pinxton and the planned Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's extension to London (later Great Central Railway) at Annesley.

Proposed railway plan Longcliffe, Annesley and Pinxton

circa 1890-1899

Map, paper backed with linen, with leather-covered card covers, Official Railway Map of Lancashire & Cheshire Districts 1913, published by the Railway Clearing House, drawn and engraved by J. & W.Emslie, London. Black covers with gold lettering on front and spine. Inside cover bears a Barry Railway Audit Office stamp dated December 1912.

Official Railway Map of Lancashire & Cheshire Districts 1913

1912

Map, paper backed with linen, Barry Railway District Map Session 1907, lithographed by Thomas Kell & Son, London. Coloured map showing Barry Railway and other railways' actual, proposed and authorised routes, 1907.

Barry Railway - District Map Session

1907

Manchester & Leeds Railway, plans and sections of the proposed railway, G Stephenson and T L Gooch, engineers, 1836

Section of the intended variations in the proposed railway, to be called Manchester and Leeds Railway...

1836

Map, system diagram, Southern Railway, 'London West Division, Area No. 6 (Part 2 - Isle of White)', monochrome, paper.

Map, system diagram

Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'East London', undated early 1900's, hand tinted for detail, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, East London

1900

Map, Railway Clearing House, Scotland, 1920, coloured, 1 inch to 7 1/2 miles.

Map, Railway Clearing House

1920

Map, North Eastern Railway, 'South Durham Coalfield', 3/4 inch to 1 mile, printed by Chorley & Pickersgill, paper.

Map, North Eastern Railway

Map, railway, 'Gloucestershire', Ordnance Survey, c. 1830 (but shows several railways), monochrome, 1 inch to 1 mile, paper-backed linen.

Map, railway, 'Gloucestershire'

1830

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